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5:05 AM ET, January 25, 2011

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets  —  Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group.  —  The services are based on …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Aims To Take NFC Mainstream; Perhaps The Greatest Trick They've Ever Pulled?  —  Bloomberg has an interesting report tonight, but they have the headline all wrong.  Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay With Handsets — is technically correct (assuming the report is true …
Google Public Policy Blog:
Keep your opt-outs  —  Today we're making available Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to opt out permanently from ad tracking cookies.  It's available as an extension for download in Chrome.  —  Why have we developed this feature?  —  Recently, the Federal Trade Commission and others …
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox and Chrome Add “Do Not Track” Tools To Their Browsers
Discussion: Macgasm and Electronista
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla, Google take different approaches to ad tracking opt-out
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: Barnes & Noble phasing out the Nook 3G  —  Barnes & Noble may be selling millions of Nook products, but it's sounding like the 3G variant hasn't really done its part to help those figures.  We've received hard evidence from within B&N that the Nook is being discontinued …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
How Microsoft plans to market against the iPad  —  Even though Microsoft's public stance, when asked about the impact of Apple's slate is “iPad?  What iPad?”, the Redmondians are preparing the company's partners for battle in 2011.  —  Microsoft is making available to its reseller partners …
Ali Imam / The LinkedIn Blog:
Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps  —  If you're a LinkedIn user, you already know the power of your professional network.  —  What if you could visualize what your network looks like?  Would your connections form clusters or groups?  Wouldn't it be great if you could see the way …
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Why 3D doesn't work and never will.  Case closed.  —  I received a letter that ends, as far as I am concerned, the discussion about 3D.  It doesn't work with our brains and it never will.  —  The notion that we are asked to pay a premium to witness an inferior and inherently brain-confusing image is outrageous.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral:
Topaz Specs!  Exclusive details on Touchstone v2 and much more!  —  We've received a massive document detailing HP's plans for the Topaz webOS slate from last year.  While these details aren't final, what we know is that HP is planning to make the Topaz highly competitive with the iPad from both a hardware and a software perspective.
Tyler Odean / Gmail Blog:
Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print  —  Let's say you need to print an important email attachment on your way to work so that it's waiting for you when you walk in the door.  With Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print — a service that allows printing …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Make ‘Facebook Credits’ Mandatory For Game Developers (Confirmed)  —  Facebook is about to ruffle some feathers.  We're hearing from one source that the social network is reaching out to game developers to inform them that it is making its own, official Facebook Credits currency mandatory.
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Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Turns the ‘Like’ Into Its Newest Ad  —  Say Something About a Brand?  It Could End Up as an Ad in Your Friends' Feeds  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The ubiquitous “like” is currency for brands, and Facebook is giving them a new way to collect: an ad unit that shows …
Discussion: Mashable and Inside Facebook
John Cook / TechFlash:
Report: Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery service  —  Amazon.com is looking to expand its home delivery service, with The Financial Times reporting (subscription required) that the online retailer has begun recruiting staffers for a national push.  Amazon has operated …
Electronista:
Pegatron making 10m initial iPhone 5s, all-out for iPhone 4  —  Pegatron has already earned enough trust from Apple to start manufacturing the iPhone 5, part makers said Monday night.  The company is due to make at least 10 million to 12 million CDMA iPhone 4 units but has reportedly been picked …
Discussion: DigiTimes and IntoMobile
Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow:
State of the Stack 2010 (a message from your CEO)  —  2010 was an absolutely amazing year here at Stack Overflow.  We grew from 7 million visitors to over 16 million, putting us in Quantcast's top 400.  We raised $6 million in venture capital, and we went from three full time employees to 27.
Fatema Yasmine / The Next Web:
Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion.  —  I recently had the chance to sit down with Dropbox cofounder and CTO Arash Ferdowsi.  The interview took place in their swanky new office in downtown San Francisco.  We talked in-depth about the major changes coming to Dropbox and the success of the company to date.
Thanks:zee
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Kodak's Push for Royalties From Apple, RIM Is Derailed  —  Eastman Kodak Co., the 130-year-old camera company, lost a U.S. International Trade Commission ruling that may hamper its effort to collect patent royalties from Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple loses buzz, Microsoft gains  —  The net loss in “media value” last quarter, according to a new report, was nearly $460 million  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: General Sentiment  —  Here's an interesting exercise.  Take the total number of news stories, social media mentions and tweets about Apple …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon tweaking low-end data plans, using ‘3G’ distinction to upcharge for LTE  —  Well, that didn't last very long at all: looks like Verizon is killing off its $15 150MB data plan for smartphones altogether, instead corralling folks into the $30 unlimited option.
Foursquare Blog:
So we grew 3400% last year...  Honestly, 2010 was just insane.  The numbers tell the story better than we can, so we put together this little infographic.  (Also, our 6,000,000th user signed up last week!)  —  Click on the graphic to view full size.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are fakes  —  For years, antipiracy companies like MediaDefender (read our 2007 profile) have scratched out a living by flooding peer-to-peer file-sharing networks with bad data.  While the techniques differ, the goal is the same …
Discussion: GamePolitics News
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
T-Mobile: 10% Of Departing Customers Leave For The iPhone  —  During a presentation to investors in New York on Thursday, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm put an explicit percentage on the so-called iPhone effect: how many T-Mobile subscribers leave every month for AT&T just because of Apple's smartphone.
Discussion: ThinkMobile
John R. Rymer / Forrester Blogs:
The Future Of Java  —  Java's future will be constrained by the bounds of Oracle's business model.  —  Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems.  Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Computerworld
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
First look: New Chrome Webstore app: PostPost brings awesome news reader to your screen (don't miss this!)  —  If you've seen Paper.li or Flipboard, you have seen hints of what PostPost is doing, but it takes you into Facebook, among your other networks, and shows you the content in a whole new way.
Discussion: The Next Web, Thanks:scobleizer
 
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
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Eric Woodward / epicfumble:
Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and NetworkEffect
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft moves to block TiVo imports with U.S. trade complaint
Discussion: TiVo, GigaOM and CNET News, Thanks:michaelgillett
 Earlier Items: 
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
An “Apple Invasion” in Korea: Two Million iPhones Sold
Discussion: Examiner
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
App Store gets a Twitter
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Says Removing ‘Reader’ …
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Zach Epstein / BGR:
White iPhone 4 appears in AT&T's online system
 

 
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